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MARTINO PERAGLIE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DEVICE FOR PREVENTING PICKING OF POCKETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,727, dated November 16, 1897.

Application filed N v m 28, 1896. Serial No. 613,731. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARTINO PERAGLIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices to Prevent the Picking of Pockets; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to devices for preventing the picking of pockets, and while es.-

pecially designed for use in connection with watches may of course be used in connection with almost any article carried in a pocket.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and effective device which will effectually prevent an article being surreptitiously withdrawn from the pocket, while at the same time it can be easily removed by the owner.

The invention consists in certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and incorporated in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved article per se. Fig. 2 shows the same in elevation. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which the device is formed.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

The improved device contemplated in the present invention is made in a single piece, being constructed, preferably, from a single sheet-metal blank. By means of a suitable die the blank may be stamped out at a single operation. The body of, the device comprises at one end a ring or loop 1, to which the terminal link of a watch-chain is attached. At

*- the opposite end of the device another loop 2 are spring-tempered, so as to yield and admit the ring of the watch between them.

In order to prevent the extraction of a watch or other article from the wearers pocket, upwardly-extending diverging barbs 4 are provided, the same being located in the common plane of the main body of the device. Other upwardly-proj ectin g and diverging barbs 5 are provided centrally of the device,

and these last-named barbs, instead of extending'in the common plane of the body of the device, project obliquely or divergent therefrom, so as to engage in the front and rear of the pocket, while the first-mentioned barbs 4 are adapted to engage the ends or corners of the pocket. The barbs 5 are deflected or bent out of their normal plane and also slightly crossed, as clearly shown in the draw- 1ngs.

The device above described is interposed between the watch and chain, so that when the watch is placed in the pocket the two sets of prongs will extend upward, so as to puncture the lining of the pocket in any attempt to remove the watch. At the same time the owner may readily remove the watch by simply grasping it and removing it first, which of course inverts the device and throws the barbs downward, thus enabling the same to be readily withdrawn.

The device may of course be used upon other articles than watches, according to convenience, and is also susceptible of changes in form, proportion, and minor details of con struction, which may accordingly be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described device for preventing the picking of pockets, the same being formed from a single sheet-metal blank provided with loops or rings for the attachment of a chain, watch, &c., and also with barbs which are bent and made divergent, one of said loops or rings being split to admit of the introduction and removal of one of said articles, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARTINO PERA GLIE.

Witnesses WILLIAM KOGLIN, CHARLES RIEDL. 

